Portability of satoshi wallet (?)
I have a couple of PCs, each has a mostly current bitcoin-qt blockchain and its own individual satoshi wallet. (I think I am using correct terms here). One wallet is empty, the other wallet has some micro bitcoins.
Is it OK to swap the wallets over, each to the other machine? I am guessing that the blockchain is independent of the wallet, and the wallets will get synced (?) in their new system as normal? If so, is this another way of saying that any one of a number of wallets could be 'plugged in' to the system, and then run, each wallet existing with its own contents etc etc (?)
Comment would be appreciated, tia.
Yes, you only need to copy wallet.dat to your other machine (into bitcoin datadir), make copies of both wallets (and rename copies to something that will tell you which one it is) before you overwrite any of the wallet.dat files. It will sync itself and if it doesn't you run qt with rescan option.